# Windows 7 **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 25, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019 "2009-10-25T19:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![starboy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/starboy/32/5985_2.png) [@starboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/starboy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/1 "2009-10-25T19:15:44Z")
So I know a few of you geeks have it what you think? ---
**Author:** ![T70\_Tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/2 "2009-10-25T19:27:46Z")
When I had the beta i didnt’ like the way i couldn’t tell if i had a window open in the toolbar or if it was a quicklink in the toolbar. Did they fix that? Other than that and if it was on more than 6hours it would randomly stop reading storage drives I liked it. Im working on getting it up on my laptop now though. ---
**Author:** ![starboy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/starboy/32/5985_2.png) [@starboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/starboy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/3 "2009-10-25T19:33:15Z")
I mean the update went smooth everything that I NEED works, and all my external HD’s are being recognized so I can’t complain. I do like the “Iconicized” taskbar, reminds me of another OS. ---
**Author:** ![T70\_Tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/4 "2009-10-25T19:37:36Z")
I had no problems with it recognizing hardware, explorer would hang up after a while and if you tried to save something it would hang. But like I said that was beta. ---
**Author:** ![SK360](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sk360/32/5933_2.png) [@SK360](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SK360)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/5 "2009-10-25T20:11:29Z")
Best windows OS since 2000… still won’t replace Snow Leopard as my go to daily OS 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BlkP42E](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blkp42e/32/5938_2.png) [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/6 "2009-10-26T06:07:29Z")
I love it. ---
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/7 "2009-10-26T08:43:16Z")
> [@CALLOUT: Idiablo233](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/callout-idiablo233/41324/207): > > When I had the beta i didnt’ like the way i couldn’t tell if i had a window open in the toolbar or if it was a quicklink in the toolbar. Did they fix that? Other than that and if it was on more than 6hours it would randomly stop reading storage drives I liked it. > > Im working on getting it up on my laptop now though. you simply mouse over and it shows you open windows. i have an external storage array that is connected to it constantly… and have an external HD which runs fine connected for multiple days at a time… so i don’t seem to have the same issue and i’m still running beta at home. it works fine… as usual a pretty solid platform. :booty: we have already moved to it for support machines at work… some issues with x64 vs. x86 and some trickery to get deprecated technologies to work with it. Overall it works good. ---
**Author:** ![fatti03msp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fatti03msp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fatti03msp)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/8 "2009-10-26T09:04:53Z")
i have been using it for awhile now and have no issues at all. The only problem i have ran into and im pretty sure its a vista problem as well is trying to get a good HD player to play HD movies. also you can run direct X 11 with windows 7 which is nice if your a nerd and play alot of PC games haha. ---
**Author:** ![sinim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@sinim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sinim)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/9 "2009-10-27T06:37:43Z")
The upgrade from vista was easy and it’s definitely a better system. ---
**Author:** ![T70\_Tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/10 "2009-10-27T06:59:03Z")
> [@Internet Options](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/internet-options/41427/18): > > you simply mouse over and it shows you open windows. > > i have an external storage array that is connected to it constantly… and have an external HD which runs fine connected for multiple days at a time… so i don’t seem to have the same issue and i’m still running beta at home. > > it works fine… as usual a pretty solid platform. :booty: > > we have already moved to it for support machines at work… some issues with x64 vs. x86 and some trickery to get deprecated technologies to work with it. Overall it works good. That’s extra work. This wasn’t external storage I was having a problem with, it wouldn’t see internal and if I saved something to the primary drive it didnt’ actually save. That’s wonderful it never did it for you but I wasn’t the only one 😉 I just asked if they fixed that problem not who’s so uber elite they didn’t see it. It did it on 2 different systems for me a Dell 490 and an HP 8600 ---
**Author:** ![starboy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/starboy/32/5985_2.png) [@starboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/starboy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/11 "2009-11-11T14:50:51Z")
Sonny did you by chance find a solution to your external devices not picking up? Im asking due to my WD Book magically doesn’t pick up on my PC. ---
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/12 "2009-11-12T05:43:58Z")
I haven’t run into an issue with external storage. What is it doing? just not showing up as a device? does a rescan in disk management bring it back? here is a work around a guy at work found when dealing with multiple USB drives: > Well, I am excited to report back that the proposed workaround worked for me!!! I now have 5 USB drives attached and I tested over 60GB of simultaneous data transfers between all 5 drives. I have also tested restarting my system a number of times and my drives are recognized consistently. Obviously I need to burn this in longer, but initial results are very promising. Also, seems that the USB connectivity issue is not only related to Nvidia chipsets, so if you have another chipset that is exhibiting similar symptoms, I would try this workaround. I am currently running a test with 3 media extenders running at the same time and so far everything is stable. Here is the workaround from the other thread (just so that you don’t have to go searching for it). It effectively truncates your available memory to below the 4GB threshold. I used HEX 0xCFFFFFFF for 3.2GB of available RAM. I’ll live with this until Microsoft releases the fix. This is a very simple workaround and is entirely reversible. > [http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprohardware/thread/3aae3b66-6a1a-47e8-ad1b-b20b68eaecf8#79ea3219-d76e-40bc-b910-c7d347002e66](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprohardware/thread/3aae3b66-6a1a-47e8-ad1b-b20b68eaecf8#79ea3219-d76e-40bc-b910-c7d347002e66) > Temporary Workaround > For those of you hitting issues with a hang or a failure to transfer data, please try the following… > From an elevated command prompt (right click on the command prompt shortcut, run as administrator): > > 1. Type “bcdedit /set truncatememory 0x80000000” (no quotes) > 2. Reboot > 3. Go to control panel -\> System and Security -\> view amount of RAM and processor speed. > > - It should report 4GB (2GB available) > To undo this, open an elevated command prompt again: > > 1. Type “bcdedit /deletevalue truncatememory” (no quotes) > 2. Reboot > 3. Go to control panel -\> System and Security -\> view amount of RAM and processor speed. > > - It should report 4GB ---
**Author:** ![T70\_Tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/13 "2009-11-12T05:56:49Z")
> [@Ford claims to own the right to any pictures taken of ford vehicals](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-claims-to-own-the-right-to-any-pictures-taken-of-ford-vehicals/41581/2): > > I haven’t run into an issue with external storage. What is it doing? > [@t70\_tsi](#): > > This wasn’t external storage I was having a problem with :mrT: ---
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/14 "2009-11-12T07:45:17Z")
posting for starboy ---
**Author:** ![starboy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/starboy/32/5985_2.png) [@starboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/starboy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7/204019/15 "2009-11-17T22:00:16Z")
So… That temp work around didn’t work. Neither did the hotfix they just came out with. Interesting.